Posted December, 28 2009 by arianne
The Senate passed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act on Thursday morning, with a vote of 60-39. The Senate and House leadership will now begin working on putting together a conference committee bill. The process of working out a compromise and passing the final bill through the House and Senate may take a month […]
Posted December, 21 2009 by arianne
With a vote tally of 60-40, the Senate formally ended debate on the Manager’s amendment at 1 a.m. this morning. The vote to approve the manager’s amendments to the Senate bill is scheduled for roughly 7 a.m. tomorrow, Tuesday 12/22. The process of how this bill proceeds through the Senate is explained well here.
Posted December, 18 2009 by arianne
Community Catalyst Sign-On Letter Community Catalyst is urging organizations, congregations, clergy, heads of organizations and elected officials to sign on to an open letter to Present Obama and Members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives in support of strong affordability and coverage provisions in final health reform legislation. The letter state that undersigned […]
Posted December, 17 2009 by arianne
The Commonwealth Fund ‘s has done an analysis of health system performance in the 50 states. States were assessed on 38 indicators, including access to care, quality of care and costs. See the full report here. If New York were to improve its performance in each indicator to that of the best state–here’s what we […]